Protocol will help guide Indigenous knowledges and data collecting, sharing, interpretation and storage
May 24, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A new protocol released by the Indigenous Innovation Initiative is receiving plenty of positive feedback and is spreading beyond its originally intended audience.
The Indigenous Knowledges and Data Governance Protocol was made public May 12. The policy’s official name is Nindokiikayencikewin, (pronounced Nin-do-ki-ka-en-ji-gae-win),which translates from Ojibwe to mean seek learning or knowledges.
The purpose of the protocol is to guide communities with how they collect and use Indigenous knowledges and data. The goal is to “rebalance power and revitalize the capacity of innovators and their communities to steward their own knowledges and data, including cultural expression and intellectual property,” reads the protocol.